Amadeo Amadei (1870-1935): Minuetto e gavotta
I. Minuetto - 0:00
II. Gavotta - 2:35
Revised by Jiro Nakano (1902-2000)
This is one of many pieces by the Italian "Golden Age" classical mandolin composer Amadeo Amadei, from the town of Loreto in Marche. Amadei's compositions are now mainly played by Japanese and Korean mandolin orchestras. This is a short suite of two dance movements, which I am playing as a mandolin quartet (two mandolins, mandola and tenor guitar).
The score is from the Nakano archive, and indeed says it has been "revised" by Jiro Nakano himself -- as I do not have Amadei's original score, I don't know what precisely Nakano's contribution was. This is one of a handful of pieces from the archive that was transcribed in 2009, so the score is a crisp computer-generated PDF rather than an old fuzzy photocopy. I will upload the PDF next week -- it's on my office computer.
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